देखो देखो साजन मोरे

A song from the nine-title score Dakshina Mohan Tagore wrote for P. C. Barua's Amiree (1945). Neither singer nor lyricist is recorded for it in the Hindi Film Geet Kosh or in the catalogue listings derived from it, and no audio is known to survive in public circulation. What can be said rests on the title alone, and is set out as such below.

No recording of this song has been located, so its melody, tempo and arrangement are unknown. The only reliable frame is the score around it: the two Amiree songs that can still be heard are light, mid-tempo, thinly accompanied pieces in an eastern-Indian light-song manner, and it is reasonable to expect that a romantic number in the same film sat in similar territory. That is context, not description, and is offered as such.

The title is a direct address — look, look, my beloved — in the older Braj-inflected register that Hindi film lyrics of the 1940s still reached for when they wanted a woman's voice speaking in an unguarded, traditional idiom. The possessive form 'more' rather than 'mere' is the marker of that register, and it also indicates the speaker's gender, since 'saajan' is the male beloved. The repetition of the imperative suggests eagerness or teasing rather than complaint, but the text itself is not available and no stronger claim can be made about the poem.

Amiree was a social drama with P. C. Barua and Jamuna in the lead, made in Calcutta in the last phase of Barua's career and released without success in 1945. Because no plot summary of the film has survived in the reference literature, this song cannot be placed in a scene; it is not even known which of the film's several actresses it was written for. The uncertainty is characteristic — for most of the nine songs, the catalogue line is the whole of the record.

The song has no known recording, reissue or online presence. Its survival is limited to the song list of a commercially failed 1945 film, preserved because the Hindi Film Geet Kosh set out to record every Hindi film song ever released, successful or not. That documentary impulse is the only reason a title like this is retrievable at all eighty years later.